Hong Sang-soo
Hong Sang -soo ( born December 25, 1960 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.
Life
He studied at the University of Chungang, in the U.S. at the California College of Arts and Crafts, and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Finally, he spent several months in France at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris.
His subtle, intellectual films, often fear of death and professional failure, self-pity and neurotic relationships, received good reviews, but are only moderately successful at the South Korean audience and the rest of Europe, especially in France, more received as in Hong's home. Ekkehard Knörer she describes in the taz: " Again and again the carousing, the violence, artists, self-pitying between women who can often be too much for too long fallen. The characters, the stories are similar, Hong is the great Yasujiro Ozu similar is a master of variation in serial, no one to film reinvents itself of film. At a closer look at the details it becomes clear: He is a highly enigmatic director. However, there is enigmatic, not so much in ramifications, but rather to repeat structures. " Austrian standard compares the techniques of interleaving with similar procedures in the factory Alain Resnais.
1996, his film was the day on which a pig fell into the well ( Daijiga umule pajinnal ) shown at the International Film Festival Mannheim -Heidelberg. With Bam gua nat he was seen in competition at the Berlinale 2008. In 2010 he received for Ha ha ha at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival in the Prix Certain Regard.
2012 turned Hong Sang -soo the feature film In Another Country (Da - reun na -ra -e- suh ) finished the first time he veered mainly in English. As an actress, the Frenchwoman Isabelle Huppert is to see the three different women named Anne portrays who visit the same beach hotel and make the same acquaintances. In Another Country director in 2012 brought a his third invitation to compete in the International Film Festival of Cannes, but remained unprämiert. In 2013 he won the Best Director Award at the International Film Festival of Locarno for U ri Sunhi that describes a woman from the perspective of three men who were in love with her.